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Mayan Lives, Mayan Utopias
The Indigenous Peoples of Chiapas and the Zapatista Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2003
The dramatic January 1, 1994, emergence of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in Chiapas, Mexico, brought the state's indigenous peoples to the attention of the international community. Yet indigenous peoples in Chiapas had been politically active and organized for years prior to the...
Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context
Learning from the Sex Abuse Scandal in the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2005
Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context is the first book to provide a broadly interdisciplinary approach to understanding the leadership crisis in the Catholic Church in the wake of the sex abuse scandal and how it was handled. Well-known scholars, religious clergy, and laymen in the trenches...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of wheat Volume 1
Breeding, quality traits, pests and diseases
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Discusses ways of ensuring genetic diversity, advances in wheat breeding and their use to improve properties such as drought resistance and cold tolerance;
Summarises research on factors affecting nutritional and other aspects of wheat quality;
Reviews advances in understanding wheat pests and diseases...
by Margaret Furtado M.S; L.D.N; R.D; R.Y.T.
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
With this guide, learn about the pros and cons of bariatric surgery, the qualifications, and it's right for you and your health needs.
by Tadeusz Stolarski, Y. Nakasone, S. Yoshimoto
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Engineering Analysis with ANSYS Software, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive introduction to fundamental areas of engineering analysis needed for research or commercial engineering projects. The book introduces the principles of the finite element method, presents an overview of ANSYS technologies,...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Eating Well After Weight Loss Surgery
Ensure Post-Surgery Success and Win the Weight Loss Battle for Good
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Essential info for the quarter million people a year adjusting to life after weight loss surgery...
With an increasing array of weight-loss procedures to choose from, more and more are opting for it. But once patients return home, they need guidance for keeping the weight off, while nourishing...
Fit, Fine & Fabulous!
Reshape Yourself From the Inside Out!
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Reshape yourself from the inside out! Fit, Fine & Fabulous is a revolutionary book that delivers seven straightforward strategic solutions to achieve your best shape ever, celebrate good health, phenomenal vitality and a dynamic personal relationship with Christ through the optimum fusion between spiritual...
Government and Politics of the Contemporary Middle East
Continuity and change
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This exciting new edition of the successful textbook for students of Middle Eastern politics provides a highly relevant and comprehensive introduction to the complexities of a region in constant flux. Combining a thematic framework for examining patterns of politics with individual chapters dedicated...
Wading Through Many Voices
Toward a Theology of Public Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
Wading through Many Voices brings together the voices of Latino/a, African American, Asian American, Native American, and Euro-American scholars to produce a dialogue of public theology: how faith-communities, divided by race, class, ethnicity, and gender, can find a common ground for life together....
Achieving sustainable cultivation of maize Volume 2
Cultivation techniques, pest and disease control
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
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by Hank Savitch, James C. Clinger, Michael W. Hail
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
The cornerstone of the American republic is an educated, active, and engaged citizenry; however, the multifaceted inner workings of government and the political forces that shape it are incredibly complex. Kentucky Government, Politics, and Public Policy is the first book in nearly three decades to...
by Y. N. Grigorenko, V.S. Sobolev, T. A. Andiyeva
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Much of the world’s petroleum is located on continental margins, and any further development of these offshore deposits would be impossible without new technologies and new methods contained in this volume. Written by some of the world’s foremost authorities on oil and gas, this volume explains...
by Y.S.F. Al-Sabah
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
The economy of Kuwait is almost wholly dependent on oil. Such dependence on a depletable resource invariably stores up problems for the future, and in the case of Kuwait, these problems are aggravated by the unusually large proportion of skilled immigrant labour in the country. Dr Al-Sabah’s analysis...
Alpha Phi Alpha
A Legacy of Greatness, the Demands of Transcendence
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
On December 4, 1906, on Cornell University's campus, seven black men founded one of the greatest and most enduring organizations in American history. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. has brought together and shaped such esteemed men as Martin Luther King Jr., Cornel West, Thurgood Marshall, Wes Moore,...